Object Lessons

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."
—THE NEW YORK TIMES

It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is desperately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having....

©1991 Anna Quindlen. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Reader's Guide © 2003 by Anna Quindlen and The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Acknowledgment is made to Cherio Corporation for permission to reprint excerpts from "Daddy's Little Girl," words and music by Bobby Burke and Horace Gerlach. © 1949 by Cherio Corp. © renewed 1977 by Cherio Corp. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

The self-described "Performer" (reader) did not enhance

Anna Quindlen is a titan of a writer. Every one of her books is mesmerizing. This particular reader though...ouch

Worst reader ever

This was a good book but the reader was so awful that I almost returned it. Her wispy monotone was bad enough, but her mispronunciations were miserable to hear. For example, she pronounced possessives such as kids’ as “kidses ”... weird and annoying after a while.

Poignant story of life

The author captured the differences and interconnectedness of the characters in a family incredibly well. The narrator was able to handle the many different voices of the characters in a way that brought them to life.

Awful narrator

The narrator totally ruined a good book. She was nasally and annoying. One of the worst ever audio books I’ve ever listened to

Forget it!

Very, very slow…..never picked up.
Could not get interested.
Kept putting down book, took me over a week to finished